Our Mission

We are a group of over 344 concerned residents of Moraga, California, who are asking Moraga to consider two commonsense gun violence prevention ordinances:

One ordinance would require people to keep their guns safely stored when they are not carrying them. Safe storage helps prevent accidental shootings by
children, teen suicides, and gun thefts during burglaries. An existing California law that makes it a crime after an adult leaves a loaded gun where a child can access it
does not do enough to protect kids from getting guns in the first place, which is why eight communities in California–including San Francisco and Oakland–have passed “safe
storage” laws.

The other ordinance would require gun dealers who wish to operate in Moraga to sell out of commercial zones, rather than from private homes, so that law
enforcement can have greater oversight.Lafayette, Pleasant Hill, the unincorporated areas of Contra Costa County, and fifty-eight other localities in California have these modest requirements.

As a group, our primary focus is the safety of children in Moraga. Just among our group’s Executive Committee, our children have been shown unsecured guns at play dates, and we have known teens who committed suicide with their parents’ guns. Some of us lived in Moraga when a student from Joaquin Moraga Intermediate School was accidentally killed while playing with a gun at a friend’s house. Many of our children were in elementary school when a deranged individual used his mother’s guns to kill a classroom full of seven-year-olds, and six of their educators, in Newtown, CT.